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Why was coal subsidized?

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Hint-- he wasn't Majority Leader of a Republican Senate majority, just a guy who understood the economics that were important to his constituents.
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Turdacious wrote:Why was coal subsidized?

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Hint-- he wasn't Majority Leader of a Republican Senate majority, just a guy who understood the economics that were important to his constituents.

Man I bet alot of Dems are glad he's dead. His very presence called bullshit on the DNC's Party of racial tolerence, friend to the black man bullshit. Fucking Grand Wizard mutherfucker showed who the real racist in politics was. Trent Lott was one of the best in Congress and he get's railroaded over bullshit but the media always gave this cross burning fuck a pass.

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. . . new research shows that carbon dioxide emissions contributed to the temperature change at the end of Earth's last ice age.
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Record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the USA, a record that dates back to 1895, federal scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this morning.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate ... 54127040/1

it could just be the weather, not the climate.
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I want to know what proto thinks of those links.
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The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica has so far not seen ice loss from global warming and much of the observation of melting has focused on the western side of the continent around the Amundsen Sea. But new research from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany says the 450,000-sq-km ice shelf is under threat.

"According to our calculations, this protective barrier will disintegrate by the end of this century," said Dr Harmut Hellmer, lead author of the study, published in the journal Nature this week.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/ ... 1E20120509
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WASHINGTON — Greenland’s glaciers are hemorrhaging ice at an increasingly faster rate but not at the breakneck pace that scientists once feared, a new study says.

The loss of ice from the glaciers that cover the island is about 30 percent faster than it was a decade ago, researchers said. That means Greenland’s contribution to future sea level rise would be about 4 inches by the year 2100 if ice loss doesn’t speed up much more, a study author said.


That may not sound like much, but when other causes of sea rise around the globe are added, the total could still be about 3 feet by the end of the century, researchers said.

“’Glacial pace’ is not slow anymore,” said study author Twila Moon, a glacier researcher at the University of Washington.
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The Filcher-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica has so far not seen ice loss from global warming and much of the observation of melting has focused on the western side of the continent around the Amundsen Sea. But new research from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany says the 450,000-sq-km ice shelf is under threat.

"According to our calculations, this protective barrier will disintegrate by the end of this century," said Dr Harmut Hellmer, lead author of the study, published in the journal Nature this week.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/ ... 1E20120509
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"Scientists argue there is global warming because they wouldn't get half of the funding they get now if it turns out to be completely bogus," he said.

The scientific community has nearly always been wrong in history anyway. In the Middle Ages, they were going to excommunicate Galileo because the entire scientific community said the Earth was flat... I mean, it is absolutely bizarre that the people who can't tell us what the fucking weather is next Tuesday can predict with absolute precision what the fucking global temperatures will be in 100 years' time. It's horseshit.
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"Scientists argue there is global warming because they wouldn't get half of the funding they get now if it turns out to be completely bogus," he said.

The scientific community has nearly always been wrong in history anyway. In the Middle Ages, they were going to excommunicate Galileo because the entire scientific community said the Earth was flat... I mean, it is absolutely bizarre that the people who can't tell us what the fucking weather is next Tuesday can predict with absolute precision what the fucking global temperatures will be in 100 years' time. It's horseshit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/b ... al-warming
Ryanair's chief executive is now your go-to guy on climate science?

You've got nothing to offer in this conversation. The facts continue to reveal themselves, and your response is to throw up diversions.
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Turdacious wrote:
"Scientists argue there is global warming because they wouldn't get half of the funding they get now if it turns out to be completely bogus," he said.

The scientific community has nearly always been wrong in history anyway. In the Middle Ages, they were going to excommunicate Galileo because the entire scientific community said the Earth was flat... I mean, it is absolutely bizarre that the people who can't tell us what the fucking weather is next Tuesday can predict with absolute precision what the fucking global temperatures will be in 100 years' time. It's horseshit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/b ... al-warming
Ryanair's chief executive is now your go-to guy on climate science?

You've got nothing to offer in this conversation. The facts continue to reveal themselves, and your response is to throw up diversions.
He's an expert on running a business dependent on government subsidies. Pretty apropos IMO.
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As predicted, humongous iceberg breaks away from Greenland glacier

A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.

For several years, scientists had been watching a long crack in the floating ice shelf of the northerly Petermann Glacier. On Monday, NASA satellites showed it had broken completely, forming an iceberg covering 46 square miles (120 sq. kilometers).

The same glacier spawned an iceberg twice that size two years ago.

Researchers suspect global warming is to blame, but cannot prove it conclusively yet. Many of Greenland's southern glaciers have been melting at an unusually rapid pace. Government scientist Ted Scambos says this break brings large ice loss much farther north.

Scientists also reported that the Arctic had the largest sea ice loss on record for June.
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Melissa Soria causes global warming.
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As predicted, humongous iceberg breaks away from Greenland glacier

A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.

Price of real estate in Manhattan being what it is...i'd build some condos on that sucker, fore it melts
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One-Time Alarmist James Lovelock Recants A Bit On Global Warming

Hysteria: The scientist who brought us the Gaia theory that Earth is a living being, which has led to a bizarre planet worship, has decided that global warming alarmists have gone too far. It's nice to see some clear thinking.

James Lovelock admitted on MSNBC in April that he had overstated the case for man-made global warming and conceded that "we don't know what the climate is doing."

The 92-year-old Lovelock said: "We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books — mine included — because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened."

Lovelock explained that "the world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time" for the warming to occur. Yet the temperature "has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising" as carbon dioxide was rising.

More recently, as revealed in an interview with the British Guardian, Lovelock disclosed other points of contention with those he calls "greens."

He has come to support fracking to produce more natural gas to fire electric power plants. He's rebuked environmentalists for creating a "green religion" that "is now taking over from the Christian religion." And he has called the idea of sustainable development through renewable energy "meaningless drivel."

Moreover, Lovelock has cast doubt on the article of faith that the science on global warming is settled.

Unlikely. They don't want to hear one of their patriarchs confess that "the schemes" for development through renewable energy "are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant."

Or that he's "very cross with the greens for trying to knock" natural gas fracking, which he sees as a preferred alternative to coal.

And they sure want to ignore that he said in reference to the "settled science" on global warming that the "one thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything."

He said: "You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time."


No, the alarmists are still listening to the 2006 Lovelock, who predicted that "before this century is over, billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable."

http://news.investors.com/article/61609 ... oo-far.htm
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Sorry, DMW.... there is no Santa Claus. Try reading Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer".
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eventually, the facts will reveal the truth.
With this worst drought since 1956 beginning to expand to the northern and western Midwest, areas that had previously been spared, analysts were slashing corn yield estimates by the hour. Some were also starting to cut their forecasts on the number of acres that will be harvested as farmers opt to plow under some of their parched fields to claim insurance.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in its weekly crop progress report issued on Monday, said that just 31 percent of the corn crop was in good to excellent shape, down from 40 percent a week earlier and below analysts' average estimate of 35 percent.

Soybean conditions fell to 34 percent from 40 percent in the good to excellent category, likewise below estimates for 35 percent.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a report on Monday that, based on the Palmer Drought Index, 55 percent of the contiguous United States was under moderate to extreme drought in June. That is the largest land area in the United States to be affected by a drought since December 1956.

Chicago Board of Trade corn prices have soared more than 40 percent in only six weeks as crop prospects have plunged.
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The truth that nobody reads your unsourced nonsense?
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are you seriously trying to suggest there is no drought?

and that it isn't the worst since '56?

and that crops aren't threatened?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/s ... 56279310/1

http://www.examiner.com/article/worst-u ... since-1956

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/ ... 2Z20120718
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Dunno what y'all are bitching about its 75 degree here :finga:
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dead man walking wrote:eventually, the facts will reveal the truth.
With this worst drought since 1956 beginning to expand to the northern and western Midwest, areas that had previously been spared, analysts were slashing corn yield estimates by the hour. Some were also starting to cut their forecasts on the number of acres that will be harvested as farmers opt to plow under some of their parched fields to claim insurance.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in its weekly crop progress report issued on Monday, said that just 31 percent of the corn crop was in good to excellent shape, down from 40 percent a week earlier and below analysts' average estimate of 35 percent.

Soybean conditions fell to 34 percent from 40 percent in the good to excellent category, likewise below estimates for 35 percent.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a report on Monday that, based on the Palmer Drought Index, 55 percent of the contiguous United States was under moderate to extreme drought in June. That is the largest land area in the United States to be affected by a drought since December 1956.

Chicago Board of Trade corn prices have soared more than 40 percent in only six weeks as crop prospects have plunged.
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Koch-funded climate change skeptic reverses course

Former climate change skeptic Richard A. Muller, in a New York Times op-ed, stepped back from his earlier dismissal of global warming.

WASHINGTON – The verdict is in: Global warming is occurring and emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity are the main cause.

This, according to Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at UC Berkeley, MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. Never mind that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of other climatologists around the world came to such conclusions years ago. The difference now is the source: Muller is a long-standing, colorful critic of prevailing climate science, and the Berkeley project was heavily funded by the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along with its libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder Charles G. Koch, has a considerable history of backing groups that deny climate change.

In an opinion piece in Saturday’s New York Times titled “The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic,” Muller writes: “Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.”

The Berkeley project’s research has shown, Muller says, “that the average temperature of the Earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.”

He calls his stance now “a total turnaround.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la ... 2823.story

the new york times op-ed

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opini ... wanted=all
The careful analysis by our team is laid out in five scientific papers now online at BerkeleyEarth.org. That site also shows our chart of temperature from 1753 to the present, with its clear fingerprint of volcanoes and carbon dioxide, but containing no component that matches solar activity. Four of our papers have undergone extensive scrutiny by the scientific community, and the newest, a paper with the analysis of the human component, is now posted, along with the data and computer programs used. Such transparency is the heart of the scientific method; if you find our conclusions implausible, tell us of any errors of data or analysis.

What about the future? As carbon dioxide emissions increase, the temperature should continue to rise. I expect the rate of warming to proceed at a steady pace, about one and a half degrees over land in the next 50 years, less if the oceans are included. But if China continues its rapid economic growth (it has averaged 10 percent per year over the last 20 years) and its vast use of coal (it typically adds one new gigawatt per month), then that same warming could take place in less than 20 years.
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WASHINGTON — With the worst drought in a half century decimating crops in the United States, the government on Friday slashed its estimate of the annual corn yield by about 17 percent in the last month to the lowest level since 1995.

“It’s scary when you see the numbers out today,” said Terry Roggensack, an analyst at the Hightower Report in Chicago. “Unless there is normal weather and rain from here on out, I can easily see prices for corn and soybeans” rising another 20 to 25 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/busin ... wanted=all
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I can easily see prices for corn and soybeans” rising another 20 to 25 percent.
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